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Cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories
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Abstract This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern Brit... mehr
This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power relations and fails to account for the specific experiences and claims of Indigenous peoples. At a time when cultural geographers are contemplating the possibilities of a ‘spectral turn’, this essay asks what politics are involved in deploying a spectro-geographical approach to studies of the colonial and postcolonial.... weniger
Klassifikation
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
haunting; Nlaka'pamux; postcolonialism; spectrality; Stein Valley;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 383-393
Zeitschriftentitel
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474008091334
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)